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Illinois Medical Malpractice Blog

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By Steven M. Levin and John J. Perconti

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Last Entry: June 10, 2020 at 09:37:56

Doctors Quick to Blame Stress When Woman Present Heart Disease Symptoms

Posted on October 13, 2008
Research shows that signs of heart disease are more likely to be blamed on stress when the patient is a woman. In two studies, 230 family doctors and internists were shown sample cases of 47-year-old man and a 56-year-old woman. Half the vignettes included sentences indicating the patient had recently experienced a stressful life event or appeared anxious...

Federal Government Settle Medical Malpractice Lawsuit

Posted on October 11, 2008
The U.S. government has agreed to pay a family nearly $1 million to settle a medical malpractice case. The man was being treated for leukemia at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Salt Lake City in 2004 when he developed a severe infection and died. His family sued, claiming the hospital failed to give him antibiotics in time...

Sign up for AAJ?s Fight for Justice Campaign

Posted on October 09, 2008
Last year, the American Association for Justice (AAJ) launched its Fight for Justice Communications Campaign. The goal of the campaign is to forcefully make the AAJ case to the public and tell the true story about the civil justice system and tort reform...

Supreme Court Tackles Drugmaker?s Immunity

Posted on October 08, 2008
The most important topic on the United State?s Supreme Court docket for the term may be the case of a musician from Vermont who lost an arm after a medical injection that went horrible wrong. At stake in the suit against Wyeth Pharmaceuticals is whether drug manufacturers are immune from claims they have faced from customers in thousands of cases, that the product label, despite approval by the U...

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Winter Convention ? February 7-11, 2009

Posted on October 07, 2008
The American Association for Justice (AAJ) will host its Winter Convention in New Orleans from February 7-11, 2009. This is a great opportunity for medical malpractice attorneys, personal injury attorneys, and nursing home abuse attorneys to network and participate in business group practice meetings...

ER Doctor Reprimanded and Fined

Posted on October 07, 2008
A state medical board has reprimanded and fined a physician at a hospital in connection with a 2004 case in which a 40-year-old woman died while awaiting discharged. The woman came to the emergency room complaining of pain that she described as an ?elephant sitting on [her] chest...

Data Reveals that About 600 People are Set Ablaze During Surgery

Posted on October 06, 2008
A patient went in for a simply thyroid surgery and instead woke up with her chin gone, her nose deformed and her mouth so damaged that after a dozen reconstructive operations, she still has trouble eating, drinking and breathing. The jury in her medical malpractice suit awarded her $4 million...

AAJ to host trial strategy seminar December 13-14, 2008

Posted on October 05, 2008
The American Association for Justice (AAJ) will host a trial strategy seminar entitled ?Weekend with the Stars: Justice Counts Seminar? for medical malpractice attorneys. The seminar will take place from December 13-14, 2008 in New York City. Highlights include insights into trial strategy and approaches to cases that are proven to work...

FDA Does Not Pull Children?s Cold Medicines Despite Doctor?s Opinion

Posted on October 04, 2008
A top government health official rejected pediatricians? calls for an immediate ban on over-the-counter cough and cold medicines for young children, saying it might cause unintended harm. The pediatricians said they were uncomfortable with the lack of solid scientific data to support continued use of OTC remedies with youngsters, particularly from ages 2-6...

Study Shows Hospital-acquired Illness Creates 12% of Liability

Posted on October 03, 2008
A new report found that one of six liability claims against health care entities is associated with infections, injuries and other conditions acquired at the hospital. The 2008 Hospital Professional Liability Analysis found that hospital-acquired infections, hospital-acquired injuries, objects left in the body after surgery and pressure ulcers represent more than 12% of hospital liability costs...

Ninth Circuit Revives Suit Against U.S. Over Cancer Death

Posted on October 02, 2008
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Public Health Service doctors who willfully fail to render appropriate diagnosis and treatment may be sued in constitutional tort action under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics...

Medical Malpractice Suit Over a Colonoscopy

Posted on October 01, 2008
A patient had undergone a colonoscopy during which a benign polyp was excised and developed rectal bleeding at home. The patient claims he called the doctor twice and he told him it was nothing serious, but the doctor alleges he informed the patient to go to the emergency room...

Negligence Lawsuit Filed After Hospital Loses Tumor

Posted on September 29, 2008
A Chicago suburban family says they will never know for certain if a tumor removed from their daughter two years ago was cancerous, since Children?s Memorial Hospital lost the tumor. A negligence medical malpractice lawsuit was filed this week in Cook County Circuit Court on behalf of Kara Morris by the lawyers at Levin & Perconti...

FDA Questions Deaths in Anemia Drug Study

Posted on September 28, 2008
Federal health officials said that they were reviewing a higher rate of deaths among patients treated with a Johnson & Johnson anemia drug in a study of stroke patients. Sixteen percent of patients who were treated with the drug, Eprex, had died three months after the study began, compared with 9 percent who were given a placebo, the FDA said in a statement...

Health University Settles Six Medical Malpractice Cases

Posted on September 27, 2008
A federal judge announced that Oregon Health and Science University has settled six medical malpractice suits. The settlements average more than $6 million, totaling $38.5 million, each which is well above a statewide liability cap recommended to state lawmakers...

Medical malpractice lawsuit filed in East Chicago misdiagnosis

Posted on September 25, 2008
An East Chicago hospital misdiagnosed a man in 2003 and the man has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit. The personal injury lawsuit claims that the East Chicago man went to the hospital complaining of breathing problems and underwent tests. The doctors at the East Chicago hospital informed the medical malpractice victim that he had lung cancer...

State Supreme Court Declines to Hear Case on Medical Malpractice Damages Cap

Posted on September 25, 2008
A state Supreme Court declined to hear a case on whether or not medical malpractice damage caps violate state constitutional rights. The state?s legislature approved caps on non-economic damages, such as pain and suffering, yet still allowed direct appeals on constitutional questions...

Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Returned to State Court

Posted on September 24, 2008
A medical malpractice lawsuit that was recently moved from state court to federal court has been sent back down to state court after federal review. The U.S. Attorney?s Office asked that the federal government be involved because one of the doctors was an employee of a network who received federal funds...

Ed McMahon Sues Hospital

Posted on September 24, 2008
Celebrity Ed McMahon is suing a hospital in Los Angeles for $1 million on the grounds of negligence and elder abuse. The 85-year-old entertainer is accusing the hospital through a medical malpractice suit of fraud, battery, elder abuse, intentional infliction of emotional distress, breach of fiduciary duty and negligent misrepresentation...

Cancer Patient Wins Malpractice Suit

Posted on September 24, 2008
A jury found a podiatrist liable for medical malpractice after he removed a growth from a woman?s big toe. The man did not check the growth for cancer, yet the podiatrist did no such tests. The mother of two was diagnosed with a malignant melanoma a year after having the growth removed...

Supreme Court Will Hear Case That Decides Where Consumers Can Sue Pharmaceutical Companies

Posted on September 21, 2008
In November, the Supreme Court will hear arguments about whether a woman whose arm was amputated may keep more than $6 million from a jury award. The award was against a pharmaceutical company who failed to warn her adequately about the risks of one of its drugs...

Mother Collects $5.5 Million for Son?s Birth Ordeal

Posted on September 21, 2008
A west Chicago suburban woman whose son was born with severe brain damage has agreed to a $5.5 million settlement with the doctors and hospital after they caused a lifetime of problems for her son. The mother of the boy agreed to a settlement with the hospital in Melrose Park, Illinois and the two doctors...

Levin & Perconti File Suit After Teen?s Tumor is Lost

Posted on September 18, 2008
A family from north suburban Chicago will never know for certain if a tumor removed from their daughter two years ago is cancerous because Children?s Memorial Hospital lost the tumor. After the 16 year old underwent surgery to remove the tumor from her thyroid, Children?s Memorial Hospital lost the tumor before a biopsy could be performed...

Nursing Shortage Leads to More Hospital Deaths

Posted on September 17, 2008
Recent studies have shown that the decrease in nurses in hospitals has lead to decreased patient care, more patient deaths and more medical malpractice lawsuits. Nurses have the most contact with the patients, while they are in the hospital. Nurses have had to start working longer hours and taking care of more patients as a result of these nursing shortages...

Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Claims Children?s Memorial Lost Teenager?s Tumor

Posted on September 17, 2008
The attorneys at Levin & Perconti have filed a medical malpractice lawsuit on behalf of a Chicago suburban teen that underwent surgery at Children?s Memorial Hospital in Chicago in 2006. The teen is claiming that the hospital lost a tumor removed from her thyroid before it could be biopsied...

Illinois Family Sues Hospital After Teen?s Tumor is Lost

Posted on September 17, 2008
An Illinois family is suing a hospital alleging that the hospital is responsible for losing a tumor before they analyzed the tumor for cancer. The teen?s tumor was never tested to see if it was cancerous. Levin & Perconti filed a medical malpractice lawsuit last week in the Cook County Circuit Court on behalf of Kara Morris of Chicago Suburb Highland Park, Illinois...

Medical Malpractice Has Serious Consequences in Children

Posted on September 16, 2008
Doctors say that medical mistakes can have more serious consequences in children than they do in adults. A study in the journal Pediatrics found that problems due to medications occurred in 11 percent of children who were in the hospital, and that 22 percent of them were preventable...

Family Sues Hospital When Tumor Is Lost

Posted on September 16, 2008
A family from the North Chicago suburb of Highland Park is suing Children?s Memorial Hospital in Chicago claiming doctors lost a tumor removed from their teenaged daughter. The teen had a tumor removed from her thyroid in 2006. The family claims that Children?s Memorial Hospital lost the tumor before performing a biopsy to determine if it was cancerous...

Children?s Memorial Hospital Loses Tumor Before Biopsy

Posted on September 13, 2008
The attorneys at Levin & Perconti filed a lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court on behalf of a teen whose tumor was lost by Children?s Memorial Hospital before the doctors could perform a biopsy. A week after the surgery the young woman and her family returned to the hospital to receive the biopsy results, but the hospital informed them that they could not tell her whether or not it was cancerous because they had lost the tumor...

Doctor Ordered to Pay Damages in Malpractice Suit

Posted on September 13, 2008
A couple was awarded nearly $1.2 million by a jury in a medical malpractice suit filed against a doctor. The jury decided in a two-day trial that the doctor was negligent in his care of the patient who underwent hernia surgery in 2003. During the procedure, the man?s small bowel was nicked but not repaired at the time causing him to have a septic reaction that included an extended hospital stay...

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